I do not know much about Quechua. However, I know that genetic engineers used a word of this beautifully sounding language to name a DNA base (yes I have been taking classes in Life Sciences, in order to get College admittance). However, I know that Quechuas love knames that are sentences, or part of sentences. For instance, a very popular female name is IMASUMAX, which means "What is beauty". Of course, the sister of "What is beauty?" can be "Beauty is...". Isn't it cute?<br><br><b><i>"Benjamin L. Russell" <dekudekuplex@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> > From the proposed names I could only imagine<br>> something like "KireiWa".<br>> Though native English and Japanese speakers should<br>> check that it does<br>> not sound funny and whether it makes sense :-D<br><br>No, "KireiWa" would sound very strange as a name,<br>because the phoneme
"wa" doubles as a static verb<br>having approximately the same meaning as "is" in<br>English, so, to a Japanese speaker, this would sound<br>like "Beautiful is ...." without the rest of the<br>sentence in Japanese.<br><br>Regarding similar names, though, there is a functional<br>programming language called "Qi"<br>(http://www.lambdassociates.org/aboutqi.htm). The<br>term, meaning "life force"/"spiritual energy"<br>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi), is used effectively<br>in connection with the force of expression of the<br>lambda calculus related with this language. <br>Therefore, I think that a similar alternative name for<br>Clean could be a good substitute.<br><br>Other terms that I can think of are the following:<br><br>* Wabi-sabi<br>This term (http://c2.com/w4/wikibase/?WabiSabi) would<br>not sound strange in Japanese, especially when<br>juxtaposed with the associated Kanji ("δΎε―") and an<br>illustration of a Japanese tea
house<br>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2002_kenrokuen_hanami_0123.jpg).<br> It is a Japanese literary term referring to "a<br>comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic<br>centered on the acceptance of transience." In<br>referring to a sense of aesthetics, it would seem<br>related to the original name, "Clean."<br><br>* Ki (the Japanese equivalent of the Chinese term<br>"Qi")<br><br>* Satori (enlightenment) "ζγ"<br>(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satori)<br><br>* Gaia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis)<br>("[a hypothesis that] living and nonliving parts of<br>the earth are viewed as a complex interacting system<br>that can be thought of as a single organism")<br><br>Other non-related alternative names that I can think<br>of are the following:<br><br>* Fugue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue)<br>(a type of contrapuntal composition or technique of<br>composition for a fixed number of parts, normally<br>referred to as "voices", irrespective of
whether the<br>work is vocal or instrumental: Johann Sebastian Bach<br>composed a six-part fugue.)<br><br>I can't think of any more names right now; I may be<br>able to come up with something else later.<br><br>Benjamin L. Russell<br><br>--- Peter Hercek <phercek@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br>> If it is renamed at all most of the proposed names<br>> have significantly above<br>> 100000 hits on goole by themselves. Some are as bad<br>> as the current name.<br>> You want something sufficiently unique. Best would<br>> be to create some<br>> acronym which is unique enough.<br>> From the proposed names I could only imagine<br>> something like "KireiWa".<br>> Though native English and Japanese speakers should<br>> check that it does<br>> not sound funny and whether it makes sense :-D<br>> <br>> Peter.<br>> <br>> Benjamin L. Russell wrote:<br>> > Here are some of my original suggestions for a new<br>> > name for
Concurrent Clean:<br>> ><br>> > * Curry<br>> ><br>> > * Clean Curry<br>> ><br>> > * Godel (in reference to Kurt Godel, a logician<br>> from<br>> > Austria-Hungary)<br>> ><br>> > * Escher (in reference to M. C. Escher, a Dutch<br>> > graphic artist with a mathematical approach to<br>> artwork<br>> > creation)<br>> ><br>> > * Bach (in reference to J. S. Bach, a German<br>> > composer/organist who composed a six-part fugue)<br>> ><br>> > * Kirei (a Japanese term for "beautiful/clean")<br>> ><br>> > * Wa (a Japanese term for "peace/balance/total")<br>> ><br>> > * Bi (a Japanese term for "beauty")<br>> ><br>> > * Quantum<br>> ><br>> > * Russell (in reference to Bertrand Russell, a<br>> British<br>> > logician)<br>> ><br>> > * Cantor (in reference to Georg Cantor, a German<br>> > mathematician)<br>>
><br>> > * Whitehead (in reference to Alfred North<br>> Whitehead, a<br>> > British logician)<br>> ><br>> > * Wittgenstein (in reference to Ludwig<br>> Wittgenstein,<br>> > an Austrian philosopher)<br>> ><br>> > * Turing (in reference to Alan Turing, an English<br>> > mathematician, logician, and cryptographer)<br>> ><br>> > * Church (in reference to Alonzo Church, an<br>> American<br>> > mathematician and logician)<br>> ><br>> > * Perlis (in reference to Alan Perlis, an American<br>> > computer scientist)<br>> ><br>> > * Nijmegen (the city in The Netherlands where<br>> Software<br>> > Technology Research Group, the makers of<br>> Concurrent<br>> > Clean, are located)<br>> ><br>> > * von Neumann (in reference to John von Neumann, a<br>> > Hungarian mathematican who developed the von<br>> Neumann<br>> >
architecture)<br>> ><br>> > * Euclid (in reference to Euclid of Alexandria, a<br>> > Greek mathematician of the Hellenistic period)<br>> ><br>> > * Socrates (in reference to a classical Greek<br>> > philosopher of the same name, who created the<br>> Socratic<br>> > Method)<br>> ><br>> > Just for fun, may I also (somewhat facetiously)<br>> > suggest the following names, since they concern a<br>> > scientist from a different field (physics) who is<br>> > often associated with creativity and imagination:<br>> ><br>> > * Einstein (in reference to Albert Einstein, a<br>> > German-born theoretical physicist)<br>> ><br>> > * Lieserl (in reference to Lieserl Einstein,<br>> Albert<br>> > Einstein's daughter)<br>> ><br>> > * Mileva (in refernce to Mileva Maric, Albert<br>> > Einstein's wife)<br>> ><br>> > On another note, in the paper "A
History of<br>> Haskell:<br>> > Being Lazy With Class"<br>> ><br>><br>(http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/history.pdf),<br>> > on the second column of page 4, a list of names<br>> that<br>> > were considered when naming Haskell is listed. <br>> This<br>> > list could be useful when renaming Concurrent<br>> Clean. <br>> > Those names are as follows:<br>> ><br>> > * Semla<br>> > * Haskell<br>> > * Vivaldi<br>> > * Mozart<br>> > * CFL (Common Functional Language)<br>> > * Funl 88<br>> > * Semlor<br>> > * Candle (Common Applicative Notation for Denoting<br>> > Lambda Expressions)<br>> > * Fun<br>> > * David<br>> > * Nice<br>> > * Light<br>> > * ML Nouveau (or Miranda Nouveau, or LML Nouveau,<br>> or<br>> > ...)<br>> > * Mirabelle<br>> > * Concord<br>> > * LL<br>> > *
Slim<br>> > * Meet<br>> > * Leval<br>> > * Curry<br>> > * Frege<br>> > * Peano<br>> > * Ease<br>> > * Portland<br>> > * Haskell B Curry<br>> ><br>> > According to the report, after each participant<br>> then<br>> > crossed out a name that he disliked, the only name<br>> > left was "Curry."<br>> ><br>> > However, two of the participants then realized<br>> that<br>> > they "would be left with a lot of curry puns<br>> (aside<br>> > from the spice, and the thought of currying<br>> favour,<br>> > the one that truly horrified [them] was Tim<br>> Curry--TIM<br>> > was John Fairbairn's abstract machine, and Tim<br>> Curry<br>> > was famous for playing the lead in the Rocky<br>> Horror<br>> > Picture Show). So the next day, after some<br>> further<br>> > discussion, [they] settled on 'Haskell' as the<br>> name<br>> > for the
new language. Only later did [they]<br>> realise<br>> > that this was too easily confused with Pascal or<br>> > Hassle!"<br>> ><br>> > Indeed, people in the United States often ask if I<br>> > mean "Pascal" when I say "Haskell," and it is easy<br>> to<br>> > confuse "hassle" and "hustle" (they sound exactly<br>> the<br>> > same in transliteration in Japanese) with<br>> "Haskell." <br>> > One reader suggested the following name <br>> ><br>> > * Hackell<br>> ><br>> > on a thread on the popular general Japanese<br>> discussion<br>> > forum "2 channel" (for those who can read<br>> Japanese,<br>> > the URL is<br>> ><br>><br>http://pc11.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/tech/1128011645/42-142).<br>> ><br>> > As a last note, since "Clean" is an adjective, why<br>> not<br>> > the following adjective:<br>> ><br>> > * Curried<br>> ><br>> >
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